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From: Ruby on 24 Jun 2010 10:46
The file is too big to open by notepad. However, I didn't see any
"squares" or blanks after I open the file by UltraEdit and Wordpad.
The option "encoding=unicode " did help on my case.
I really appreciate all your helps on my data issue.

On Jun 24, 7:55 am, Patrick <patrick.mat...(a)gmx.ch> wrote:
> Best would be to use a Hex editor to look into the text file. This
> would show you what's really in there.
>
> Try and open the text file with Notepad and - may be - you will see
> "squares" between the visible characters. That would be a sign for
> whitespace characters.
>
> What you could try is something like;
>
> data want;
> infile...
> input @;
> _infile_=compress(_infile_,,<look up the letter for whitespace
> characters in the docu>);
> input .... <your variables>;
> ....
>
> HTH
> Patrick

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